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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1852
JANUARY, 1852--JULY, 1852
LECTURE ON THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, JANUARY 5, 1852, AT HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 1 [A notice under the above heading appeared in the Texas State Gazette (Austin), January 24, 1852. Only the outline of the lecture was printed. It is as follows:] "General Sam Houston gave a lecture on the subject of the North American Indians at Hartford, Connecticut, on January 5, 1852. The object of the lecture was to arouse feeling in favor of the Indians. Houston claimed that in their contest with the whites, the latter were almost always the aggressors, and that the Indians, in a body, never broke their treaties. A single Indian, or two or three combined, might sometimes kill a white man for plunder, but that in such cases, an appeal to the chief would secure the sur- render of the murderers. He said that the United States were now expending 6,000,000 per year to preserve peace with the Indians on the Texas and New Mexico frontiers, and that it was for the most part useless. He said that he would guarantee peace throughout the entire frontier for $100,000 per year if he could appoint the leaders and select the kind of men for the troops. General Houston went on to explain that many times Indians were cheated and wheedled into making treaties by dishonest and designing men. The whole lecture was a eulogy on the Indian character.-New York Sun." 1 Texaa State Gazette, January 24, 1852. The Texas-State Ga.zette, cited the New York Sun as its source for the notice. Neither The Sttn, nor Connecticut papers of the period are available here. Other New York papers do not carry notice of the lecture.
To JosEPH L. NOBLE 1
Washington, D. C., Feby 12, 1852. the 9' requesting the favor of my I with pleasure comply with your Truly thine Sam Houston [Rubric]
My dear Sir :-Yours of Autograph is received, and request.
Jos. L. Noble, Esq. Bath, Me. 1 From the Emil Hurja Collection, Washington, D.C.
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